Journal of Akhadic Studies

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Journal of Akhadic Studies

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Communist Party of Kyrzbekistan ceases to exist
By: Ahmet Irekur
Published: Treizen 1594


Members of the Communist Party of Kyrzbekistan during their last congress.

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In their last congress in Qënderë, the Communist Party of Kyrzbekistan has voted to dissolve and cease to exist in a final 274-22 vote, in a gathering which was felt as much as a final goodbye than a new step toward a new political realigment.

The Communist Party of Kyrzbekistan was considered the largest legal communist party in a Near East Akhadic-majority country. The party was created in 1577, following a split by the Perovist faction inside the ruling Socialist People's Party, after several of the most prominant members of the Perovist faction had either being expelled or left the party, including former Governor of Yartushia Besnik Qosjë and former minister Bashkim Malësh. The Communist Party of Kyrzbekistan continued loyal to a strict Perovist outlook, although with a pragmatist electoral strategy at times, even after the end of communism in Severyane.

The Communist Party of Kyrzbekistan was able to enter to the Kyrzbekistani parliament in the 1581 and 1585 elections, and in 1593 again as a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Coalition, which gathered other far-left and radical forces. The Communist Party obtained its best result in the 1582 state elections, in which their candidates obtained almost 900,000 votes and around 7% of the nationwide vote. However, the party struggled to gain support beyond its own strongholds, in the main cities of the state of Kombash-Kenlyaukya and in the metropolitan area around Bashkimqytet, in eastern Kyrzbekistan, both cases highly Arberian-majority areas. The communists had the peak of their influence at the state level rather than in the national parliament, often trying to push ruling Socialist People's Party toward more radical policies.

Two months ago, the Socialist Revolutionary Coalition -of which the Communist Party of Kyrzbekistan is the main member- voted to start a new political aligment, creating an united political party, which was named Kyrzbekistani Party of Social Justice (PGYK-PDS), with a more moderate outlook and platform. The political platform accepted by the Socialist Revolutionary Coaltion, which is the result of the Communists losing their influence as their membership declined in recent years, combined left-leaning economic policies with a moderate strand of Political Akhadism and federalism. This ideological shift from secular Perovism toward an "Akhadic-populist hybrid", as some commentators described the platform adapted in the last Socialist Revolutionary Coalition, was unthinkable only a few years ago, but the decling electoral results of the coalition, the lost of many voters toward the Arberian Democratic Forum in last state elections, and the election of Kemal Aydarur, the first non-Arberian elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kyrzbekistan made it possible.

It is unclear if such ideological shift would be successful or not in the future.